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12-letter words containing c, l, o, w

  • dwarf cornel — the bunchberry.
  • float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
  • flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.
  • flow control — (communications, protocol)   The collection of techniques used in serial communications to stop the sender sending data until the receiver can accept it. This may be either software flow control or hardware flow control. The receiver typically has a fixed size buffer into which received data is written as soon as it is received. When the amount of buffered data exceeds a "high water mark", the receiver will signal to the transmitter to stop transmitting until the process reading the data has read sufficient data from the buffer that it has reached its "low water mark", at which point the receiver signals to the transmitter to resume transmission.
  • flow country — an area of moorland and peat bogs in northern Scotland known for its wildlife, now partly afforested
  • flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
  • flower child — (especially in the 1960s) a young person, especially a hippie, rejecting conventional society and advocating love, peace, and simple, idealistic values.
  • flowerpecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
  • fowl cholera — a specific, acute, diarrheal disease of fowls, especially chickens, caused by a bacterium, Pasteurella multocida.
  • harmonic law — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
  • jim crow law — any state law discriminating against black persons.
  • knuckle down — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
  • lock forward — either of two players who make up the second line of the scrum and apply weight to the forwards in the front line
  • lower canada — former name of Quebec province 1791–1841.
  • lower school — a school that is preparatory to one on a more advanced level.
  • lower-income — earning less than average
  • majolicaware — goods made from majolica
  • microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
  • new politics — politics concerned more with grass-roots participation in the political process than with party loyalty or affiliation: identified especially with the candidacies of Senators Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern.
  • new rochelle — a city in SE New York, near New York City.
  • owl's clover — any of several western American plants belonging to the genus Orthocarpus, of the figwort family, having dense spikes of flowers in a variety of colors with conspicuous bracts.
  • owl's-clover — any of a genus (Orthocarpus) of plants of the figwort family of W North and South America; esp., a California species (O. purpurascens) with red or purple upper leaves
  • pasch flower — pasqueflower
  • periodic law — the law that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers.
  • phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
  • pillow block — a cast-iron or steel block for supporting a journal or bearing.
  • plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
  • police power — the power of a nation, within the limits of its constitution, to regulate the conduct of its citizens in the interest of the common good.
  • poll watcher — a representative of a political party or of an organization running a candidate who is assigned to the polls on an election day to watch for violations of the laws that regulate voting, campaigning, etc.
  • public works — government-funded construction
  • rock wallaby — any wallaby of the genus Petrogale, having a banded or striped coat, slender body, and long legs and feet, inhabiting caves and rocky areas in Australia.
  • scapegallows — a criminal who escapes death by hanging or the gallows
  • school prawn — a common olive-green prawn, Metapenaeus macleayi
  • schoolfellow — a schoolmate.
  • second world — the world's industrialized nations other than the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
  • shawl collar — a rolled collar and lapel in one piece that curves from the back of the neck down to the front closure of a single-breasted or double-breasted garment.
  • snow crystal — a crystal of ice sufficiently heavy to fall from the atmosphere.
  • stone curlew — thick-knee.
  • swamp locust — water locust.
  • sweet clover — melilot.
  • the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
  • tow-coloured — pale yellow; flaxen
  • town council — municipal government
  • trickle-down — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
  • triple crown — an unofficial title held by a horse that wins the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes in a single season.
  • two sicilies — Two Sicilies.
  • two-cylinder — (of an engine) having two cylinders
  • waffle cloth — honeycomb (def 5a).
  • wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
  • wallcovering — a flexible sheet of sized paper, fabric, plastic, etc., usually laminated and printed with a repeat pattern, for pasting on a wall as decoration and protection.
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